Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, March 24-28, 2025; Long Lost Lee Lorenz Interview Found

The Tilley Watch Online, March 24-28, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Becky Barnicoat, Guy Richards Smit, Niall Maher, Adam Douglas Thompson, Peter Kuper, Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy (a duo) Shouts & Murmurs: “Raising Felix: Google Misunderstood” by Julia Wertz Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Sunday In

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Friday Spill: Early Release Of The April 7, 2025 Cover; Tommy Siegel Is The Latest Guest On the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik Talks Paul Auster; Fave Photo Of The Week…Allen & Chast

Early Release: Barry Blitt’s Cover for Next Week’s Issue As they do every so often, The New Yorker has early released its next cover. In a short piece on its website, the magazine notes that Mr. Blitt has borrowed “the visual imagery of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”

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Thurber Thursday: Thurber Art For “Rain From Heaven”

As I’ve leisurely made my way through decades of the earliest back issues of The New Yorker I’ve come across a number of things I never cataloged before. Below are three full page ads featuring Thurber art for the play “Rain From Heaven”— it doesn’t appear that Thurber had anything to do with the play other than contributing these illustrations

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